Obama's Energy Plans and the Left-Wing Hoax

President Obama recently stated that the essence of the Cap And Trade the use-tax on conventional energy users, you, me, anyone who drives a car, any US company, that uses oil or gas to heat/cool one's home, or uses electricity produced from coal or oil or gas fired electrical generators, was to "make conventional" carbon emission producing energy use MORE EXPENSIVE, THUS MAKING ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES "CHEAPER". They must have missed Economics 101 as it was not part of their reduced academic course load. Making one thing more expensive does not make the other "cheaper" if the other is inherently not a viable alternative.

The premise is that Solar, Wind, Turbines on Ocean Tides, and even "Cold Fusion" will be made cheaper/viable if the Government overtaxes businesses and individuals like you and me for using conventional energy sources. Of course we know that non-economically viable sources of energy will stay non viable near term. And the USA, people and businesses will be poorer for not being able to compete in world markets, as we lose our assets and jobs/businesses and see our standard of living degenerate vs the rest of the industrial world. Remember, China, India and other industrial nations will take NO part in this quackery!!

This is a crazy premise on Obama's part, an ignorant and fundamentally incorrect premise. Alternative sources? Solar? Wind?, Ocean tide turbines?- These are non-viable sources for mass production of energy because they are much to expensive to build, use, maintain, and produce too little energy for the cost, making them impossible, in the near future, to use for you and me and businesses that need to turn a profit, compete with China, India and other industrial nations not engaging in this energy quackery, though the investment value of soon-to-be billionaire Al Gore, and other politically connected individuals and companies, into otherwise non-viable corporations (their buddies) producing so-called "clean" energy will soar because our Cap and Trade tax dollars will be given to their companies and investments. This is sort of reverse wealth transfer from hard working middle class to the far left-wing wealthy!!! (The Friends of Obama Elites).

As for "Cold Fusion", recently headlined by NBC or CBS, showing a guy, I think in his garage who claimed he achieved a net electrical gain, as a possibility with technology breakthrough, this form of energy production was disproved in the 1950's by prominent scientists as it requires MORE energy to make the fusion reaction happen than is actually produced by the fusion reaction!! ...Unless you can produce conditions of Absolute Zero temperature- no electrical resistance (I believe that is minus 273 degrees, which of course takes no energy to produce that condition, right?!!) Perhaps we should place the fusion reactors on the Moon and run wires to Earth?????...Yes I think I am on to something here!!!!!!!

The liberals have nixed aiming for offshore oil drilling, clean coal technology, or additional nuclear fission(that every civilized and some un-civilized nations are or are planning to build), and even hampered natural gas production. The liberals WANT the Global Oil Cartel to raise prices and do not care if Exxon, and other oil companies reap extraordinary profits ar our expense by price fixing as they have done for many years as shown recently in the price hikes and no words from Obama.

In evaluating any of this Administration's programs the same truths prevail:
1 The programs are a matter of propaganda, as perception is far more important than the reality of success....like the Fusion reactor guy...perception of a breakthrough.

2 All of Obamas's programs from Cap And Trade, to Government Take over of Healthcare,
to the infamous, failed Economic Recovery (AKA "spending for government welfare programs and left-wing friends including Acorn!"), to the take over of US Car Companies, Banking System, and intrusion into corporate markets that have wasted our tax dollars and made matters worse, are about this: TAKING MONEY FROM HARD WORKING FAMILIES IN AMERICA, AND GIVING IT TO CRONIES, POLITICAL ALLIES, AND THOSE WHO SIMPLY DO NOT WANT TO WORK HARD. Now you may ask why???? would he do this?- #3 below

3 It is The Administrations PLAN to make us poorer. The Economic, political, media and Hollywood elite would be OK- they would gain, the poorest would not be poorer and the hard-working middle, would be far worse off.

This Administration, aided by a left-wing propaganda machine in NY Times, NBC, CBS, and many other government controlled media propaganda groups is about perceptions, and has a total monopoly on Congress and the Executive branches at this time.

Obama's thirst for creating false perception even goes to his personal side, showing him as some sort of athlete when the reality is that he cannot play basketball, cannot throw a baseball-in a recent game, he threw the ball in like a 9 year old; And he definitely cannot run. All that would be OK as not everyone has athletic interests, except that he and the liberal media do portray him as an athlete.

It is all about maintaining the perception of positive programs and personal attributes as Obama, takes this country away from its people, polarizes us all, and advances us to a totalitarian dictatorship, and toward the loss of our economic, social, traditional, religious freedoms, and trashes our Constitution and Bill of Rights, something most of his supporters have never read.

If Obama's Programs and Congresses Progams were a human footrace, a long distance running event, they would be equivalent to forcing the highly trained runners to start a Marathon (26.2 mile race) 20 miles back, running 46.2 miles, while lesser runners can start at say mile 16 with only 10.2 miles to run- the "best!!!" runners finish in the back, while the connected political elites place bets on the guy running only 10.2 miles.

Though he is 12 years younger than me, I would gladly engage in a such a footrace against President Obama of say...15-50 miles to dispel the myth about his athletic ability, and happily wear 2 pound ankle weights strapped to each of my ankles, to handicap me much in the same way he wants to handicap all hardworking taxpayers in this Nation. In this case, I would still win as I am so certain he would not last 6 miles at any reasonable pace. Perhaps his radical cleric mentor who lobbied to get him into an ivy league school would argue that I must wear 5 pound weights to make it fair!

It is becoming clearer that this Administration's leaders have a world view that demeans and destroys America, and that the real target end state is something they are not saying outright, and is far more radical than most of their supporters have understood. More about that some other time!

For now we must plan every legal and morally acceptable way to present our alternatives and push for these by voting out of office any government official who sides with the destructive programs of the "Change" administration.

Taking pictures around our family pool

Took a few pictures of plants and shrubs around our pool today as seen below:

There are a variety of plants from spruces to palm trees and flowers in pots and in garden. The pool area has a relaxing effect on anyone who wants some peace and quiet..almost like a vacation area on our grounds.

July 4th Trail Ultra in NY Finger Lakes

These 2 photos The top photo of the shoes caked with clay and mud that gets everywhere on your body and clothes AFTER a very difficult 31 mile race on mud trails that were difficult to walk on without sinking in or falling down, as the course was rained on for days before and even the night before the race. Race began at 6:30 AM and most trails were deep mud or under water. Very slow pace resulted from this mess, but it was a great workout as preparation for the 50 mile race I am doing in 2 weeks in Maine (Great Cranberry Island).

The shoe photo at bottom is actually the same shoes after being cleaned thoroughly and literally washed in a washing machine. They came out looking new again.

In any case July 4th race was a great event as was the post race cookout on our campsite. Good thing we had new tent and equipment that kept us dry during the rainy night before the race began. I came out of this race well and stronger, with no injuries and only minor strains. On to my 50 mile race on July 18th in Maine.

Blue Cobalt and Brown Discus in Home Aquarium

We have a 90 gallon freshwater aquarium that must be cleaned and maintained better. Seeing today one of the few truly challenging Amazon Freshwater fish that rivals the colors of the marine fish still surviving in this aquarium reminded me to work on this tank soon.

This Discus is about 5 years old and has stunning colors. We must revitalize the tank and get 4-6 more of these fabulous fishes that grow to about 4 inches in diameter and are very intelligent Ciclids.

Universal Health Care

Before the Nation has another big government spending (permanent) program slammed in its face by big spending forces in the Legislative (Congress) and the Executive (Obama Administration) branches, please consider the following.

• Healthcare amounts to about 20% of the total money spent by all Americans each year.
  That will be added to Government spending and our taxes.
• Presently the following Government run programs are "bankrupt", Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, due to government corruption, Congress appropriating the assets for other non approved programs, mis-spending and fraud at the level of execution in the Federal, State and Local elements of each program. The Government cannot manage anything well...so why would we give them more of our money and economy to manage?

Now Obama and the left-wing Congress who only have eyes for welfare spending and spending for the lobbyists and their companies who put them into office, will take the money from all hard working Americans, those of us who have paid taxes faithfully each year, and give it into waste that will likely double the spending for Healthcare and provide far less in benefits for most Americans.

Is this Democracy? Most of us believe that all Americans should have some form of coverage. However the "system" does not need to be fixed for most Americans. Let us change it for those who need incentive and structure, and in a manner that provides incentive and true transparency in execution.

President Obama promised before he was elected and then again on April 15Th 2009, that taxes would not be raised for any American families earning less than $250,000 per year. That already is a lie, as over 2 trillion dollars has been approved in the overall "Economic Recovery" (Spending) plan that is over and above our annual budget. Add to this a comparable amount for Universal Healthcare, and it is clear that the money simply does not exist.

Already lobbyists are converging on Congress more than ever for their piece of the pork. Democracy will fail if we allow this to happen. Additionally, when we consider how the upcoming Energy Bill (Cap and Trade) will also have a negative effect on our economy, as it penalizes US based businesses, and citizens, possibly being added to Government takeover of Healthcare, Economic Recovery spending, Bailouts for failed corporations, it is clear that our futures are under attack by an ideology based group of incompetent legislators in the left-wing controlled Legislative and Executive branches of our government.

We cannot allow this to continue.

I would urge all whom I can to write, email, see your Congressional representatives, State Representatives, Local and all whom you can, to tell them that you will be watching how they vote and act when the Universal Healthcare bill is voted upon. There are answers to this problem in the Private Sector, as discussed by Mitt Romney and executed in his tenure as a Governor. Surely we can come up with a plan that is not yet another power grab by Congress and the Whitehouse.

Ultra-workout Turtle Rescue

I recently was finishing a 22 mile training run near my home and found a very large snapping turtle in the middle of a well-driven street. It was half a mile from nearest water due to heavy rains that caused its movement. This specimen was about 20 inches in diameter, about as large as they get in the Northeast, and about 50-60 pounds weight. These turtles can inflict nasty bites and have tempers to match their size and bite. However, they, as all of the creatures in the wild, deserve to have a good habitat.

My son, Andrew and I used a 50 gallon garbage pail to capture it and brought the fabulous specimen to the nearby reservior, where it swam away gracefully. Above are several photos of this "guy" swimming away.

I did not complete the final 1/2 mile of my run. This positive experience will keep me fleet of feet in my planned 50 mile race on Sat. July 4th in the Finger Lakes region of NY State.

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Rich